Word: overtness
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...it’s why it’s at least the ninth such party to occur on an American college campus since the start of this academic year. The media rightly remarked that this isn’t the first time in recent memory that glaring and overt racism has made waves at a US college, but the amount of attention makes clear that the media outcry is far from the “yet again” attitude expressed by a few online blogs...
While much of this racism may not manifest itself in the most overt ways—explicit racial slurs and exclusion are rare—the very history of this country, and the ways in which minorities continue to be portrayed by the media, undoubtedly affect people’s subconsciously held ideas about race. It is extremely foolish for anyone to think that Harvard and its students are somehow above this tainted environment...
...meritocracy, where the religious ardor of intellectualism purifies us of our class distinctions. To the extent that class does exist, it checks itself at Johnston gate. If legacy status gave you leg up in the admissions process, no one asks you about it once you’re here. Overt social elitism would be as shocking as racism, and condemned as such. Even some final clubs shield themselves from the shrill accusation of “classism” by waiving dues for cash-strapped members...
...beat of American pop culture. The self-styled Swing Kids of Hamburg and the Zazous of Paris paid a heavy price in beatings and scalpings for growing their hair, wearing Zoot suits, and dirty dancing to banned jazz. "Instead of uniformity, they proclaimed difference; instead of aggression, overt sexuality," writes Savage, with as good a recipe as any for the teenage era that was about to dawn...
...given justice in your article [April 16]. For proof, you only need to look across the English Channel at my homeland. Despite the overwhelming attention given to the recent arrival of many immigrants, a disconcerting number of talented but disillusioned youngsters are leaving Britain. There is very little overt racial discrimination and harassment, and there are still job opportunities, but the perfect, rose-tinted perception of a country ascending on the back of economic growth is increasingly at odds with the subtle realities of adversity, bias and inequality endured by many here. It is these subtle realities that...